Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Songs of Bilitis: The Tomb of Bilitis: Second Epitaph

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On the dark shores of the Melas, at Tamassos in Pamphylia, I, Bilitis, daughter of Damophylos, first saw the light. I rest far away from my birth-place, you see. As a child I was taught the loves of Adon and Astarte, the mysteries of holy Syria, and death and the return to She-of-the-full-rounded-eyelids.

The Songs of Bilitis: The Tomb of Bilitis: Second Epitaph

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